From this year, the Opatija Coffeehouse Debates project has added lectures by young scientists from Opatija and the surrounding area to the list of its activities, with the aim of promoting their work and even better connecting the scientific and local community. After extremely interesting presentations by Sanja Bradić, Aleksandr Šušnjar and Petra Tariba, the fourth in a series of lectures by young scientists was held last week Igor Eterović, postdoctoral researcher from the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka.
Igor Eterović received his PhD in 2015 from the University of Zagreb, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities in Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Rijeka. Along with Kant and bioethics, the topics he dealt with as part of his doctoral thesis, It also studies the history of medicine and local history., and is active in numerous scientific and local civil society organisations. He is the author of the book “Kant and Bioethics”, a number of scientific articles, and Editor of two international scientific journals. It is already A passionate mountaineer for many years, and more recently he also deals with the philosophy of mountaineering.
The first part of the presentation was dedicated by Eterović problems when defining mountaineering. The official definition, according to which mountaineering is ‘movement through mountains using one’s own feet for personal pleasure’, is insufficiently precise and erroneously excludes some activities that would undoubtedly be considered mountaineering, such as climbing upwards (embossed forms between 500 and 1000 meters above sea level) or moving with the help of equipment (skis, snowshoes, cuts). New problems, says Eterovic, await us when We try to characterize mountaineering as a sport, since some forms of mountaineering can have a competitive character (which is necessary for an activity to be characterized as a sport), while some forms do not have a competitive character or are even completely opposed to the idea of competitiveness (which means that they cannot be characterized as a sport). In the final part of the presentation, the lecturer spoke about numerous Ethical, ecological and economic aspects of mountaineering, including the duties and rules of conduct of hikers, which often have far greater and deeper significance than the mere rules of etiquette.
Great interest in the lectures of young scientists
Forty interested listeners In the crowded premises of the Cultural Front Association, she followed the lecture with great interest and participated in the debate, in which various views and understandings of mountaineering were shared. Thanking the lecturer and everyone present, the organizers announced the following activities as part of the Opatija Coffeehouse Debates project: panel discussion on populism in Croatia and the world, which awaits us on November 28 in Café Continental, in which prof. dr.sc. Berto Šalaj and doc. dr.sc. Nebojša Zelič.
*Report taken from official website of the “Coffeehouse Debates Abbey” project
